Shock-carrier.



E. ]?AULSON.

s110011 CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21k, 1913.

Patented July 14, 1914w 2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

E. PAULSON.

SHOCK CARRIER.

' APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, 1913. 1 1 03,3 1 1 Patented Ju1y414, 1914.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

IERLAND PAULSON', 0F KNIFE RIVER, NORTH DAKOTA.

encon-canning.

`Speccaten of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14;, 1914.

Application led June 24, 1913. Serial No. 775,528.

.To all whom it may concern.'

Y Be it known that l, ERL/inn PAULsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Knife River, in the county of Dunn and State ofvNorth Dakota, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Shock- Carriersgf'and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertaiiis to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to shock carriers adapted for use in connection with harvesters, and is in the nature of an improvement on the device disclosed and claimed in my prior Patent 1,057 ,7 68 of date, April 1st, 1913, entitled shock carrier.

In the accompanying drawings which .illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the carrier, some parts being broken away and some parts of the harvester being'indicated in connection therewith; Fig. 2 is a section taken approximately on the line m2 x2 on Fig. 1, some parts being broken away; and Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken approximately on the line .r3 on Fig. 1.

Of the parts. of the harvester, it is only desirable for the purposes of this case to note the traction vvheell (indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3), the harvester frame2 and the binder deck 3, the latterbcing indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and` 3, and the pole 5. y

The framework of the bundle carrying attachment is indicated as an entirety by the numeral 6, it being preferably formed from` angle ironbars, the laterally spaced members of which. project rearwardly with 'clear-` I ance space between them. At ,its front end, the frameG is provided with an anchor bar 7 detachably connected thereto by bolts S and longitudinally spaced bolt holes 9. The projecting end of the anchor bar 7 is loosely hinged to the pole 5 by a flexible joint 10. Rigidly secured to the intermediate portion of the inner bar of the frame 6, is a short stift' arm 11 that is pivotally connected to a bearing 12. on the rear adjacent side of the harvester fra-me 2.l `The front portion of the frame 6 carries a large operating platform 13 located below the upturned flanges of the bars of the said frame, so that it aiiords a deck or pan to receive and hold loose grain which may be shaken from the bundles as they are delivered from the binder deck 3 onto the said bundle receiving platform 13.

rlhe inner side of the frame 6 is supported by the binder frame through the connections jnst described, but to carry the outer portion of said frame 6, l provide the same at its outer side with an intermediately located wheel 14, and at the rear portion of its outer side a caster wheel 15.

lWorking vertically between the rearwardly projecting side bars of the frame 6, with its ,front portion underlying the rear portion of the bundle receiving deck 13, is a .so-called d rop deck', which, for important reasons, is made up of a multiplicity of long laterally spaced bars or rods 16 unconnected at their rear ends, but at their forward ends, securely tied together by a pair of transverse tie bars 17 and 18. The front tie bar 17, at its ends, is journaled in bearing brackets 19 secured to and depending from the side bars of the frame 6, below the intermediate portion of the receivingdeck 13.

Journaled in the side bars of the frame 6,

at the rear edge of the receiving deck 13, is

--bles 24 connect the said windlass shaft 20 to the rear tie bar 1S of the drop deck 16. Normally, the lever 21'will be locked in the position shown in Fig. 2, in which. position it holds vthedrop deck 16in an elevated position indicated by full lines in said Fig. 2.

. Upwardly bound arch bars 25 are secured at'theirends to the side bars of the 'frame 6 and spanthe intermediate.portion of the drop deck 16 rising sulliciently high above the same to oei-init the accumulation of a shock or bun les on the said deck.` Oblique side boards 26 are secured to the sides of the said arch bars 25. A divider plate or board 27 extends longitudinally over the central portion of the drop deck 16, and is rigidly secured from the arch bars 25, as

shown, by means of brackets 28.

rllhe numeral 29 indicates resilient packer bars, the front ends of which are suitably attached to the side boards 26, and the rearwardly extended yends of which converge and Ytend to maintain engagement with the divider board 27. These packer arms 29 tend to keep the'bundles pressedagainst the divider board asv lthey "are accumulated. 'onthe drop deck 16, but are readily sprjnjig,A

outward under the action of the accumulatinggshock. y

Extended acrossthe shock Carmel-,above the rear end of the dropfdeckfl6, Lisfa .s'o called tail gate 30 having laterally spaced .forwardlyfprojectin arms, the front ends of which arefpii'otally `connected vat 3l to bear- -ingbrackets 82 ,rigidly secured on the side .bars-of, the frame .6. lt one side, the tail gateis provided withy a braccdfarm 33 whichis connected by a cable to the lev r 2l., andfnormally, hassome `slack therein. Normally, also,` of course, the tail {ratei-3G visinits closed position, shown iby full lines in Figs. 1 and 2. i.

As an important Afeature of this invention, Itmount a so-.called shock ejector for sliding movements on the rods orbars of the dro deck 16 and irovide means for anrvchoriigthe same to the ground while the machine 'isinoving forward for a limited distance. As shown, this so-called shock ejectorcomprises ,a plate 355 withlongitudi .nallyspacedlegs'BG that are perforated so lthat theyslide freely on the rodsgof thedrop -deckl6- lntermediately pivoted to the back of the Lejector .plate 35, at. 37, is a pair of ground engaginganchors, the depending` ends of vwhich arendapted to be projected into'the ground. The inturncd free ends lof the i said anchors.r 38 are yielfdingly drawn -upfward by coiled springsattached there to, and to,v the .top of the ejector plate Jolurnaled to suitable bearings on thelower central portion` of the-frontof thezejector plate 35 isi aguide roller 40. v j

'.-The..nu1neral`4l indicates an op'eating .cable which is lattached to the lever 2l and .branches at its rear endattachedto -the inner ends of ,the anchorsS. 'The cables 4l .and 46are also preferably passed through? 1 perforatediguides 47; and `48, respectively,

secured on the front bar of the/framev 6.

An' operator with' a fork will stand oir ythe bundle receivingA platform 13 and will! .transfer the bundlesfrom the said platform vv.,ordeck IBI onto Athedrop deck or" dumping` platform 16,:placingthe bundles, ofcourse, butt end doWnwardon-the bars of the said drop deck. l.)referably,y the bundles are accumulated on the deck 16.5by depositing one, first on, the vone side and then oneon the other `side'f. the` divider board 27. The inclined 'tailboardBOand the'rinclined side boards 26 cause the outer bundles of the shock to in- "g'oodishock 5 Y After the shock has been accumulated, it may be deposited onto the ground by acdrawing,- forward the lever 2l. The initial clinefinward, as is requiredl informing a part oftheforivard movement of the lever 2l causes the rear portions of the bars of the drop deck 16 lto be lowered `to the ground, carrying` with it ,the shock ejector Also,` the slack thus given to theca-ble 4 6fpermits the springs 3 9 to throw the depending points of the anchors 38into 'thef ground, thereby causing the said vejector temporarily, to remain stationary ony 4the grcund, while the machine `moves f fcrward.

Because of fthe normal slack inthe cable .34, thet'ail willnot be raised by forward movement-of the ylever 2l until after? the drop deck' l6fhas been lowered, the ejector 35 has been anchored to theground, and the rods of the said deck l'6 inoved soniewl'iat forwardin respect to lthe said ya'nrchored ejector. ,This will cause the proper compression or forcing'together ofthe bundles forming the shock, before ,'tlieyfarc vdiscliarged froml the machine. Lowering of jtlie'dropdeck316 will set the `butt ends 'of the bundles on `the ground, so that thelbars of1'thepdrop dreck ywill be drawn outpfrm 4under the same. 'flfhe shock ejector, however, insures proper initial movement A' of the shock. The,continued"forward Inovement of the leverr 21 `of course, raises the. tail 4gate 30 to an elevated position indicated bydotted lines in Fig.Y 2, so'that the shock will be passedout ofthe fina'chine after 1t has been set upon the'groun'd. a l

`i/Vhentheni achine inovesforw'ard, so that the anchored shock ejector is approximately in the position shown by'dottedflinesfin Fig'. 2, the cable' 46 Will be drawntaut, therebyfpulling the inner. ends ofith'ef anfchers 38 downwardv'and thereby retracting ythe anchors from the ground so that the 'ejector may. then move forwardwith 'the machine bv1ously, the.n rearward movevnient of thevleverl willpermit the'tail ojate to drop to its normalpositionfand will kraise :the drop deck 16v and move Vthe lshock ejector `back tofitsnormal position, witli'the.y anchors held in. a Vretracted position.

y The purpose of making the bar 7 "adjustable transversely ofthefrontportion of s .the carrier frame 6,l to afdapt 'itfor'appli cation to poles or other parts at the fflont of the harvester frame to which it is adapted tobe attached,and which parts, in different arrangementsare llocated in `different positions transversely of. fthe machine.A

ln harvestingfflamfthe flaxiwill leecut lby theuse of aharvest'er having' thetrip `re-k f ymoved andl withoutf the use of twine, so

,that the will Ybeloosely deposited on the receiving* deck 13, Vfrom whence it `may be iso thrown with a fork onto the so-called drop deck 16. Vhen the machine and attachment are thus used, the divider board 27 should be detached 'from the arch bars 25. The said divider board is intended for use only when accumulating bundles to form a shock, and when thus used, it serves to keep the central portion of the shock erect and in proper form.

hat I claim is:

l.. In a bundle carrier, a drop deck having bars movable into contact With the ground, and a shock ejector permanently andmov ably mounted on the bare of said drop deck and provided with an anchor for temporarily anchoring the same to the ground. 2. In a bundle carrier, the combination with a drop deck having bars adapted to be dropped into contact With the ground, of a shock ector mounted to slide on the bars oil said deck, an anchor on said ejector for anchoring the same to the ground, and a lever on said carrier connected to said vejector and anchor and controlling the opand a connection to said lever for operating said tail gate.

4. In a bundle carrier, the combination with a drop deck having bars adapted to be dropped into contact With the ground, of a shock ejector mounted to slide on the bars of said deck, an anchor on said ejector for anchoring the same to the ground, a lever on said carrier connected to said ejector and anchor and controlling the operations thereof, a tail gate at the rear of said drop deck, a connection to said lever for operating said tail deck, the connection between said lever and tail gate having such normal play that under movement of said lever, said drop deck Will first be lowered and said anchor engaged Wit-h the ground, and said gate Will subsequently be raised.

5. In a bundle carrier, the combination YWith a drop deck having bars adapted to be dropped into contact With the ground, of a shock ejector mounted to slide on the bars of said deck, a ground engaging anchor on said ejector, a lever, and lever actuated connectionsA operative to control the vertical movements of said deck and of said anchoring device, and limiting the movements of said ejector, in respect to said deck.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of tvVo Witnesses.

ERLAND PAULSON. Witnesses:

BERN ICE G. WHEELER, HARRY D. KILGoEE.

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